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Originally Posted by Dottore
We're not old by any means - but want to be free of the burden of so many possessions.
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I had an eccentric friend (not crazy as he was very wealthy) many years ago and he took stock of all his possessions and was shocked at the sheer number of "things" he had. He arbitrarily picked a number...250, I think and decided he would never have more than 250 "things."
For example a house was one item, a car was another, a shirt was another, etc. A pair of socks was considered one item. He made it a personal committment so that if he wanted to acquire something, he had to get rid of something else. It did not have to be of similar value...for example I remember he gave up a wheel barrow when he decided to buy a restored Piper Cub.
As long as I knew him he stuck to this personal sense of constraint. And he seemed pretty happy with it. He felt it made you really take into account what was really important to own.
A bit of trivia...the Jeep wagoneer Burt Reynolds was driving in the opening scenes of Deliverance was his. (He was the canoeing expert for the movie).